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#1 2012-04-13 14:52:53
- damd
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[SOLVED] So I broke everything
I'll admit right away, I did pacman -Syu and didn't bother to check what was going on. Then I rebooted.
Now I get into GNU GRUB 0.97 immediately at start. I have no idea what to do from here. It says "Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported", etc., not the standard "choose one to start from" with blue colors and stuff.
Any help appreciated!
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#2 2012-04-13 15:03:45
- Gcool
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
So you have no entries which you can choose to boot from? In that case, boot from a live-cd, verify your grub config and install grub again.
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#3 2012-04-13 15:05:35
- damd
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
So you have no entries which you can choose to boot from? In that case, boot from a live-cd, verify your grub config and install grub again.
It doesn't look anything like it normally does. I get a prompt saying "grub> " and a bunch of commands that I can enter from there.
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#4 2012-04-13 15:43:05
- Stebalien
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
Before you do anything, boot into a livecd and read pacman's log. You will probably need to chroot into your install (from a livecd), rebuild your initramfs (with mkinitcpio), and then rebuild your grub config (grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg). The relevent instructions are on the wiki.
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#5 2012-04-13 18:46:36
- damd
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
For what it's worth, I ended up reinstalling everything. I had nothing of value on the machine anyways.
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#6 2012-04-13 19:06:57
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
damd, please mark this thread [SOLVED] by editing the title of your first post.
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#7 2012-04-13 20:30:37
- nstoyanov
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Re: [SOLVED] So I broke everything
Just FYI, I had the same thing happen to me a while back and realized the cause was updating the kernel without having /boot mounted.
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